linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/2] ns: introduce binfmt

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Message-ID: <d1b6b52b-dd7f-fa27-eafa-7a6a43a03b92@vivier.eu>
Date:   Mon, 1 Oct 2018 09:13:41 +0200
From:   Laurent Vivier <laurent@...ier.eu>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] ns: introduce binfmt_misc namespace

Le 01/10/2018 à 06:45, Andy Lutomirski a écrit :
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 4:47 PM Laurent Vivier <laurent@...ier.eu> wrote:
>>
>> This series introduces a new namespace for binfmt_misc.
>>
> 
> This seems conceptually quite reasonable, but I'm wondering if the
> number of namespace types is getting out of hand given the current
> API.  Should we be considering whether we need a new set of namespace
> creation APIs that scale better to larger numbers of namespace types?
> 

Yes, we need something to increase the maximum number of namespace types
because this is the last bit in the clone() flags and the time namespace
has already preempted it.

Thanks,
Laurent